Monday, September 1, 2008

Top 100 Modern Classics (1983-2007)

Entertainment Weekly presented their list of 100 "new classics" for their 1,000th issue. This was valuable, as so rarely are recent films rated... it's always "best-of-all-time." Plus I feel, with the exception of my annual top ten, I never assess contemporary movies. Putting together a top hundred, limited to the last 25 years, seems like a good exercise; and worth doing every five years to keep it fresh. My criteria: overall rating (based on acting, directing, writing, etc.)/ability to keep interest over multiple viewings/depth (i.e. worthiness of study)/sense of its era, yet timelessness/influence on later films.

With the posting of this list, onelinereview goes on fall hiatus; I'll be back on September 22 with more on the movies.

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Omigosh-- my laptop completely died! I troubleshot it with some instructions online, opened it up, tinkered with it, and closed it-- and for now (astonishingly) its working fine! Sorry for the delay, I'm frantically posting my handwritten blog entries!

The Reviews

Here is a list of the 2017 films I've seen, and my opinion of them. Filmmakers who toil on the almost-impossible mission of making a feature length film should not have their work dismissed on a pass-fail basis so easily. That being said, this is just one man's opinion, and on a blog at that, and the savvy moviegoer will read enough of the reviews of professional film critics to allow a blog here and there to "list" favorites and least favorites.

Must See

n/a so far

Recommended

Get Out. Best seen as satire.

John Wick: Chapter 2. Will please fans of the original (when it gets going)-- it's even better than the first, if, at times, the violence gets video game-ish.

Kong: Skull Island. Summer movies have started two months early; fun!

Skippable

Logan. Maybe what was needed story-wise, but a little too Terminatoresque in the telling, and far too depressing overall.